The other thing also was that with John P on the helm he was right in amongst the A's at Mumbles 06, perhaps we need to get ourselves up to speed by 10%. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
Exactly my point above; I feel we need to get sailing our boats right before we worry too much about the last 1% of boat design speed.